SPAM on List...

[Tomasz Ciolek]

yes.... but most RFC complaint mailers will append the plaintext version
of the email as well as the HTML version.

Rgerads
Tomasz Ciolek
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:12:25PM -0700, tim.conway at philips.com wrote:
> One word of warning on assuming all html mail is bad.  Some of us are on 
> corporate email systems, subject to pointless arbitrary changes to our 
> settings.  About a year ago, my preferences in Lotus Notes (a bad database 
> program masquerading as a worse mail program) were modified to have me 
> send mail to the internet in html format.  I didn't even know it was 
> happening, until i started getting nasty messages from people's mail 
> systems saying my mail was being rejected because it contained html 
> formatting, on which point I threw myself a message to my home address to 
> verify it, and searched out the preferences setting to turn it back to 
> text.... 
> ...Point being, if we do decide to reject all html-formatted email, let's 
> have it bounce with explanation, not just fall into a black hole.
> It saddens me to know that blocking all of Korea is the right thing to do. 
>  Maybe if more things like this 
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/12/06/1554227&mode=thread&tid=133 
> happen, things will change.
> 
> Tim Conway 
> conway.tim at spilihp.com reorder name and reverse domain 
> 303.682.4917 office, 303.921.0301 cell 
> Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC 
> 1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D 
> Longmont, CO 80501 
> Available via SameTime Connect within Philips, caesupport2 on AIM 
> "There are some who call me.... Tim?" 
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> Christopher Sawtell <csawtell at paradise.net.nz>
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>         cc:     (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
>         Subject:        Re: SPAM on List...
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> Greetings list admins
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> I'd just like to add that as almost all the SPAM I receive is HTML, a very 
> 
> effective way to get rid of a very large fraction of spam would be to 
> refuse 
> all HTML posts. I've not seen any genuine posts to this list which have 
> been 
> web pages.
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> -- 
> Sincerely etc.,
> Christopher Sawtell
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